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Towers in the park is a morphology of modernist[1] high rise apartment buildings characterized by a high-rise building (a "slab") surrounded by a swath of landscaped land. Thus, the tower does not directly front the street. It is based on an ideology popularised by Le Corbusier with the Plan Voisin, an expansion of the Garden city movement aimed at reducing the problem of urban congestion. It was introduced in several large cities across the world, notably in North America,[1] Europe[2] and Australia[3] as a solution for housing, especially for public housing, reaching a peak of popularity in the 1960s with the introduction of prefabrication technology. The towers themselves are typically simple, brick or concrete-clad high-rise buildings with little ornamentation. The footprint was designed with simple geometry to minimise construction costs whilst maximising light, air, and views of the surrounding open space for occupants, sometimes including balconies for the apartments. It is now

Towers in the park - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Architectural and urban planning style The Penn South cooperative (1962) in Manhattan . Cabrini-Green (1957 now demolished) in Chicago at ground level St. James Town in Toronto (1964-71) Debney Meadows (Flemington Estate) (1962–1965) in Melbourne . Waterloo Estate (1968) in Sydney . Brownlee Towers (1969 now demolished) in Perth . Towers in the park is a morphology of modernist [ 1 ] high rise apartment buildings characterized by a high-rise building (a "slab") surrounded by a swath of landscaped land. Thus, t

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